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Left-hander Wei-Yin Chen (pictured) was on his way to his second strong performance in a row when he grabbed at his side and exited Sunday's game with a right oblique strain. That's very bad news for a team that already has called on four Triple-A starters to fill in the fifth slot in the rotation and replace injured Miguel Gonzalez. It was a tough week already, after so-so outings by Jason Hammel, Freddy Garcia and Steve Johnson, and that was reflected in the combined numbers. The rotation posted a 2-2 record with a 6.03 ERA and averaged just five innings per start. Even though the team managed to go 4-2 in those games, this is starting to get scary.
Grade: D (Hannah Foslien / Getty Images /May 12, 2013)
Catcher Taylor Teagarden said he was hoping that Fox television cameras didn’t pick up his verbal slip-up after teammates hit him in the face with shaving cream pies following Saturday’s walkoff homer in the 13th against the Tigers.
He didn’t know until his mom called after the game that his four-letter expletive — let’s just say a synonym for doo-doo — was broadcast after he was “pied” by Adam Jones, Robert Andino and Mark Reynolds. He was hoping there was a seven-second delay. But his mom — and everyone watching — heard it clearly.
“The first thing she said was, ‘Do you realize you said that and it was on live television?’ I was like, ‘Was it really?’” Teagarden said. “At that point, that was the first anyone had told me about it. I thought maybe they had bleeped it out. I felt embarrassed. I’d like to apologize if I could.”
Teagarden, a backup who was making his Orioles debut Saturday, said as soon as the word left his mouth he regretted it.
“I was like, ‘Oh man,’” he said. “It’s not very often that I am on a live broadcast after a game, especially with emotions as high as they were at the time.”
He said he was expecting phone calls and texts from buddies across the country ribbing him for the slip-up, but instead all he got were congratulatory messages for the homer. So, did he catch “doo-doo” from his mother?
“No, my mom’s got as bad of a mouth as I do,” he joked.
